Fear and Folly: The Visionary Prints of
Francisco Goya and Federico Castellon

October 11 – December 13, 2019 | Monday – Thursday: 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. | Friday: 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. | Saturday: 10 A.M. - 2 P.M.

Free and open to the public

Francisco Goya, A Way to Fly, ca. 1812-1820, etching and aquatint.
Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Director’s Fund Purchase.

Federico Castellon, Stop Him and Strip Him I Say, 1968, lithograph.
Collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Director’s Fund Purchase. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

Though separated by about 150 years, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) and Federico Castellon (1914-1971) often appear closer to one another than to their contemporaries, as they both turned their attention to the human condition. In this exhibition, the artists are represented by important print series from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’ permanent collection: Castellon's lithographs for Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death and Goya's etchings from Los Disparates (or The Proverbs).